ABLE Commission preps for new alcohol laws, pandemonium
Oklahoma's new alcohol laws will take effect Monday, Oct. 1. While the ABLE Commission has been working long and hard to prepare for the...
Embrace OKC seeks to prevent mental illness in OKCPS
At the Oklahoma City Public School System working board meeting Sept. 24, Oklahoma Department of Mental Health Commissioner Terri White introduced a “historic” collaboration. She...
Lawyer: Medical marijuana restrictions could burn cities
Whole industries are not often born overnight. Medical marijuana presents unique challenges for Oklahoma’s state government: SQ 788 legalized medical marijuana within mere months...
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John Oliver discovers that Facebook is a toilet
We have said it before, and we will say it again: Facebook remains an indispensable yet thoroughly disgusting part of our daily lives as...
The doctor is out: Two threats to physicians’ offices
In my first commentary on NonDoc, I outlined my desire to examine the Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-Chase Bank collaborative to reform health care by breaking all...
Editorial: Oklahoma loosens grip on vices
After teachers filled the Oklahoma State Capitol this spring, they returned to classrooms having achieved a primary policy objective to move their state forward:...
Toad in the hole: Mushroom has long week
It's true, I've heard these jokes equating the Super Mario Brothers character Toad with a penis. I've heard them since I was very young, but...
Boom Town: Chaos and order at odds in OKC
The battle between chaos and control in Oklahoma City constitutes the main theme in Sam Anderson’s new book, Boom Town. As is true of Oklahoma...
Virtual charters need legislative cost-benefit analysis
In 2017, Oklahoma’s four virtual charter schools had an average daily membership of nearly 12,000 students, but there is no way of knowing how many...
Boom Town ‘the best advertising’ OKC has ever known
Sam Anderson's Boom Town (Penguin Random House, 2018) is a fascinating, perplexing book, a mash-up of Oklahoma City history and the doings of the NBA's...
